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Learn what a bot is, the spectrum of ways bots are used online, and how bots might be used in the next election cycle. Dan Patterson, CNET and CBS News Senior Producer, spoke with Patrick Sullivan, Akamai CTO, Security Strategy, about the programming and use cases of bots.
Verimatrix, formerly known as Inside Secure, a global provider of innovative, customer-friendly cybersecurity solutions that protect content, devices, software and applications, announced a partnership with Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, to offer global enterprise server-side watermarking capabilities. By using Verimatrix server-side Watermarking pre-integrated with Akamai's Intelligent Edge Platform, Akamai customers can take advantage of a highly efficient, powerful approach to ensure that their premium video content stays protected.
Cybersecurity company Akamai has responded to consumer demand and announced on Tuesday that it was adding new tools to its Enterprise Threat Protector service that allowed customers to send all web traffic to a proxy. Jim Black, product marketing manager for Akamai, explained in a blog post that the new secure web gateway capability would add a new level of security and visibility to the company's security offering while providing something that has historically been difficult to do.
Research from Akamai recently found that up to 75 percent of all credential abuse attacks against the financial services industry in 2019 targeted APIs directly. "We talk about API attacks and the reason why criminals are using targeted methods against API because the traditional 'throw it and hope it sticks' against financial services just isn't cutting it anymore, they have to be more creative," Steve Ragan, security researcher with Akamai, told Threatpost.
Over four months, it found 1,221 active phishing domains that were not part of the Akamai ecosystem but which either consumed data from or redirected victims to Akamai customer sites. "More importantly, we got a clear understanding on the number of victims, and such visibility is rarely published." Since he only used a sample dataset from the Akamai logs, he believes the true number of phishing sites using resources through Akamai is much higher.
On August 7, 2019, a single credential stuffing attack against a financial services company recorded 55,141,782 malicious login attempts. The majority of API attacks against finserv was negligible for much of the two years covered by the analysis, but suddenly spiked to more than 80% of all malicious login attempts in May 2019, and to more than 75% in October 2019.
The web services 'n' security biz said, in a report released today, that three-quarters of all credential abuse attacks it detected in 2019 were targeted at banks' publicly available APIs. Akamai said it had "Observed 85,422,079,109 credential abuse attacks" over two years, spanning December 2017 to November last year.
Comcast Business announced two strategic initiatives aimed at driving increased innovation in cloud-based cybersecurity solutions for customers of all sizes – SMB through Enterprise. The...
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